WBB adds center to recruiting class
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2018 12:19 amFrom SMUMustangs.com:
Australian Paige Bayliss Signs With SMU
DALLAS (SMU) – Head coach Travis Mays has added a seventh freshman to the 2018 signing class as Paige Bayliss signed a National Letter of Intent to play at SMU. The 6-5 post player from Queensland, Australia is a member of the 2018 U18 Australia team.
Bayliss averaged 5.3 points and 8.1 rebounds in the 2018 U20 Australia championship for Queensland, winning a silver medal with the squad. In 2017, she was a member of the gold-medal winning Australia team at the FIBA U17 Women's Oceania Championship. She also represented Queensland in the 2017 U18 championship, and was listed as the No. 2 post prospect at the tournament by Premier Basketball Report.
The Brisbane State High School product joins Texas products Amber Bacon, a 5-5 guard from Grand Prairie, Texas, and Desoto teammates and cousins Kayla and JaQuia White. Also in the 2018 freshman class are Alexis Leggett, a 6-3 post player from Ariton High School in Ariton, Ala., Marie Olson, the No. 21 post prospect according to ESPN and a standout at Oak Ridge High School in El Dorado Hills, Calif., and Brishonne Tollie, a 6-2 post player from Bartow, Fla.
The 2018-19 roster will also feature the addition of Makenzie Ellis, who sat out the 2017-18 season after transferring from Colorado, and the return of Alicia Froling who missed the season with a knee injury. Froling, also a Queensland, Australia, native, is 15th at SMU with 1,213 points in three seasons, and led the Mustangs in scoring with 14.3 points as a junior in 2016-17. Mays guided SMU to 19 wins and the third round of the WNIT as a first-year head coach two seasons ago.
Australian Paige Bayliss Signs With SMU
DALLAS (SMU) – Head coach Travis Mays has added a seventh freshman to the 2018 signing class as Paige Bayliss signed a National Letter of Intent to play at SMU. The 6-5 post player from Queensland, Australia is a member of the 2018 U18 Australia team.
Bayliss averaged 5.3 points and 8.1 rebounds in the 2018 U20 Australia championship for Queensland, winning a silver medal with the squad. In 2017, she was a member of the gold-medal winning Australia team at the FIBA U17 Women's Oceania Championship. She also represented Queensland in the 2017 U18 championship, and was listed as the No. 2 post prospect at the tournament by Premier Basketball Report.
The Brisbane State High School product joins Texas products Amber Bacon, a 5-5 guard from Grand Prairie, Texas, and Desoto teammates and cousins Kayla and JaQuia White. Also in the 2018 freshman class are Alexis Leggett, a 6-3 post player from Ariton High School in Ariton, Ala., Marie Olson, the No. 21 post prospect according to ESPN and a standout at Oak Ridge High School in El Dorado Hills, Calif., and Brishonne Tollie, a 6-2 post player from Bartow, Fla.
The 2018-19 roster will also feature the addition of Makenzie Ellis, who sat out the 2017-18 season after transferring from Colorado, and the return of Alicia Froling who missed the season with a knee injury. Froling, also a Queensland, Australia, native, is 15th at SMU with 1,213 points in three seasons, and led the Mustangs in scoring with 14.3 points as a junior in 2016-17. Mays guided SMU to 19 wins and the third round of the WNIT as a first-year head coach two seasons ago.